Norris, relying upon the essence of the soul as immaterial, draws a distinction between the indissolvible and the imperishable (33 34).
We think the distinction is immaterial.
But for many on the ground, given a tornado that can at best be characterised as "devastating", the distinction is probably immaterial.
So far as Allwill himself was concerned, however, such distinctions would have seemed immaterial, even meaningless.
Any distinction between Kurds and Turks was immaterial; they were the same, worthy of the same suspicion, mockery, and hatred.
Google (which recently bought military robot maker Boston Dynamics), Amazon and the Pentagon are currently caught in a three-way books-and-bombs skirmish that can make the distinction between NSA- and Google-tailing immaterial.
To the victims of mass slaughter, the distinction between a gun or a bomb is immaterial.
The distinction between for-profit and non-profits was immaterial, the lawyers argued.
Although Bureau of Customs regulations provide for three types of documentations, distinctions between the categories of vessels subject to them are immaterial for the purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act, since a vessel with any of the three kinds of documentation is an "American vessel" within the section 3(p) definition.
In presenting this account of the real distinction between the mind and body in Christian Religion, Astell demonstrates first that the mind is immaterial and then that it is immortal.
The distinctions which have been introduced among the gentlemen, into nobility greater or lesser, are perfectly immaterial to our present purpose; knights, barons, earls, viscounts, marquises, dukes, and even princes and kings, are still but gentlemen, and the word noble signifies no more than knowable, or conspicuous.
